Archive | 2005

Gazza kicked out

Gazza is no longer the manager of Kettering Town. Paul Gascoigne has denied claims from Kettering owner Imraan Ladak that his position as manager was made untenable because he had begun drinking again. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/4501572.stm I’m not so sure about that, take a listen to this interview. Cringeworthy.

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Firefox 1.5 is out

According to this post FF 1.5 out of RC status. Lots of behind the scenes improvements including a vastly improved upgrade process but of immediate notice is the drag and drap tab re-ordering. Firefox rocks.

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Sky Gnome

The newly launched Sky Gnome is a rounded pyramid that looks like a clock radio and enables one to listen to any channel on Sky remotely. According to the FAQ (which I can’t link to because it’s embedded in a stupid flash movie) it can transmit up to 30 meters if you want to be [...]

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Creating a Subversion repository

This item assumes that you already have svn installed and this is the first time you’ve created a repository for this server (else leave out certain bits) All items here worked for me on my local development server where I’d already installed subversion but up to now had only been using it as a client to check [...]

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No more CD’s

Hooray! This morning I finished ripping all of our CD collection into iTunes. It’s taken months, mainly because there were huge gaps where I just couldn’t be bothered but now it’s done and it was really worth the hassle. The stats are: 35.06 GB 57.9 days worth 8343 tracks 655 Albums (this includes EP’s and [...]

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Billy no mates

I was at the Orient vs. Yeovil game on Tuesday night. There wasn’t much of a crowd which is ironic seeing as it was the best game I’ve seen them play all season. Anyway, at one point I noticed a whole bank of seats in the south stand with just one guy sat in them, [...]

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I am a Podcast nutter

I am finding that the ability to listen to recent BBC Radio transmissions via my iPod is having some unexpected side effects. It all started when we got a DAB Radio for our kitchen. For both of us it’s rekindled an interest in listening to the Radio other than just the Today Programme in the [...]

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